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Detail of front of wrap of COLLECTED - 150 Years of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts at the Macleay Museum

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Davies, Susan M. COLLECTED- 150 Years of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts at the Macleay Museum.

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Aboriginal Arts Board. ABORIGINAL ART OF NORTH AUSTRALIA. An Exhibition. Wandjuk Marika (chairman) and Jennifer Isaacs (text). BNo. n/a. First Edition (n.d.) 1976 (pb). Pp: (44); 235mm x 210mm; 0.15kg. 23 b/w. Preface, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, Sydney, circa 1976. (Catalogue produced for the South Pacific Festival at Rotorua, New Zealand in 1976. This catalogue contains articles interwoven among the descriptions of 118 bark paintings and artefacts, of which, twenty-three are illustrated) (Keywords: Arnhem Land, Tiwi, Purukapali, didjeridu, yidaki, Narritjin, Manggalili, Manybunharawuy, Milingimbi).
Book Code: R257 SOLD - now out of stock AU$45
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Detail of wrapper - OENPELLI BARK PAINTINGS - Arnhem Land, North Australia (aboriginal4p 160/215 ABOR4)
Aboriginal Arts Board. OENPELLI BARK PAINTINGS. Arnhem Land, North Australia. BNo. 0-7254-0526-0. First Edition, 1979. Pp: 160; 280mm x 200mm; 1.12kg. 54 col, 59 b/w, 1 map. Foreword, preface, introduction, list of artists, references, suggested reading. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Ure Smith, Paul Hamlyn Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1979. (The paintings illustrated in this book depict many aspects of traditional life, hunting and food gathering, different animals as totemic ancestors, the Mimi spirits and their range of activities, and other beings that inhabit the world of the Gunwinggu people) (Keywords: Gunwinggu, Kunwinjku, Murrumurru, Garnarradj, Nganjmira, Nadjamerrek, Nabinkulawa, Namarrkon, Mimi).
Book Code: S343 SOLD - now out of stock AU$95
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Detail of wrap - PAINT-UP - Amanda Ahern and the Mornington Island Elders (ahern1p 220/163 AHER01)
Ahern, Amanda & The Mornington Island Elders. PAINT-UP. Designs and Dreaming Stories. BNo. 0-7022-3269-6. First Edition, 2002 (pb). Pp: viii, 104; 210mm x 285mm; 0.65kg. num col, b/w & fig, 4 maps. Acknowledgments, introduction, conclusion, glossary. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2002. (With a background in anthropology and visual arts, the author approached the local Mornington Island Elders to involve the community in documenting for posterity the dancers' body-paint designs and their meaning. The result is this first-ever publication to describe in drawings, photographs and stories the unique geography of the Top End and the rich traditions and legends of the Muyinda ancestors) (Keywords: Culture, designs, traditions, legends, body-paint, North Australia, Aboriginal, Mornington Island, Muyinda ancestors).
Book Code: R741 AU$29
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Detail of wrapper of AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART - ARNHEM LAND (allen1p 150/194 ALLE01)
Allen, Louis A. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. Arnhem Land. BNo. 0-71-175062. First Edition, 1972 (pb). Pp: (ii), iii, 43; 280mm x 215mm; 0.15kg. 92 b/w & fig, 1 map. Introduction, acknowledgments, suggested reading. A very good paperback copy with stapled card wrap. Wrp: g. (minor wear on wrp). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1972. (The meaning and purpose of the art is discussed and the bark paintings and scultured objects are put in context in how they are made and used) (Keywords: Australian Aboriginal, religious paraphernalia, Oenpelli, Milingimbi, Yirrkala, Groote Eylandt, Port Keats, Beswick Creek, Bathurst Island).
Book Code: P285 SOLD - now out of stock AU$60
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Detail of wrapper of WILDBIRD DREAMING (amadio1ap 160/213 AMAD01)
Amadio, Nadine & Richard Kimber. WILDBIRD DREAMING. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia. BNo. 0-86436-108-4. First Edition 1988. Pp: 144; 280mm x 210mm; 0.81kg. 31 col, 6 b/w, 1 map. Preface, acknowledgments, list. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Greenhouse Publications Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, 1988. (Contained in this book are the paintings from the Aboriginal artists of the Central Deserts of Australia, known collectively as the Papunya School) (Keywords: Aranda, Nampitjinpa, Warlpiri, Nangala, Pitjantjatjara, Tjakamarra, Pintupi).
Book Code: N371 AU$70
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Detail of wrap of ABORIGINAL BARK PAINTINGS from the Collection of the Art Gallery of NSW (anderson1p 150/193 ANDE01)
Anderson, Patricia (compiler). ABORIGINAL BARK PAINTINGS from the Collection of the Art Gallery of NSW. North-East Arnhem Land - Maningrida, Milingimbi, Yirrkala. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1981 (pb). Pp: 23; 205mm x 160mm; 0.06kg. 19 b/w, 1 map. Introduction, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear on wrp). Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1981. (This booklet illustrates a selection of 19 bark paintings from the collection of the Gallery. With the exception of one work, they are all of the Catfish Totem.) (Keywords: Australia, Aboriginal, Arnhem Land, bark painting, ethnology, mythology).
Book Code: V289 SOLD - now out of stock AU$70
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Detail of wrapper - ABORIGINAL ART OF THE WESTERN DESERT - Artists of the Papunya settlement in the Northern Territory of Australia (bardon1p 150/191 BARD01)
Bardon, Geoff. ABORIGINAL ART OF THE WESTERN DESERT. Artists of the Papunya settlement in the Northern Territory of Australia. BNo. 0-7270-0811-0. First Edition, 1979. Pp: 71; 260mm x 200mm; 0.51kg. 24 col, 20 b/w, 24 fig. Preface, introduction. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (signature on htp). Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1979. (Insights are given into Aborigines and their legends and twenty-four of the best paintings by twenty Aboriginal artists are also illustrated) (Keywords: Papunya, Tjingari, Tjampatjimpa, Pintupi, Tjaparula, Loritja, Tjakamara, Tjapangati, Tjapaltjari, Anmatjira Aranda).
Book Code: P176 AU$160
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Barrett, Charles L. & A.S. Kenyon. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. National Museum of Victoria. BNo. n/a. Revised Edition, 1950 (pb). Pp: 39; 215mm x 140mm; 0.06kg. 29 b/w, 6 fig. Preface. A good paperback copy with staple binding. Wrp: g. (minor soiling of wrp; discreet signature on tp). National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, 1950. (This illusrated handbook was prepared for an exhibition of decorated implements, ceremonial objects and bark drawings of Australian Aborigines) (Keywords: Traditional art, ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal).
Book Code: P256 AU$45
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Detail of wrapper MODERN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. (battarbee2p 175/235 BATT02)
Battarbee, Rex. MODERN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. The discovery of Albert Namatjira's talent. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1951. Pp: (viii), 56; 280mm x 220mm; 0.78kg. 21 col, 12 b/w. Foreword by T.G.H. Strehlow. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: g. (wear on edges of dw; small inscription inside front board). Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1951. (The author tells the story of his discovery of Albert Namatjira's talent. The work of nine other artists is also described along with photographs of the artists themselves) (Keywords: Contemporary art, Australia, Aboriginal, painting, Hermannsburg, Haast Bluff, Edwin, Otto, Reuben, Pareroultja, Walter Ebatarinja, Enos, Oskar, Ewald, Namatjira, Henoch Raberaba, Richard Moketarinja).
Book Code: S243 AU$95
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Detail of wrap of LONG WATER - Aboriginal Art and Literature - Aspect 34 August 1986 (beier8p 150/200 BEIE08)
Beier, Ulli & Rudi Krausmann (ed). LONG WATER (1986). Aboriginal Art and Literature. Aspect 34, August 1986. BNo. 01-59-3358. First Edition, 1986. Pp: 115; 245mm x 180mm; 0.25kg. 61 b/w. Contents list. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Aboriginal Artists Agency, Robert Brown & Associates, Bathhurst, 1986. (This issue contains fifteen essays which include: "Painting is very important" by Wandjuk Marika as told to Jennifer Isaacs; and "Papunya Tula Art: The End of Assimilation" by Ulli Beier) (Keywords: Traditional art, Central, Northern Australia, Aboriginal, Djankawu, Yalangbara).
Book Code: L836 AU$25
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Detail of wrapper - AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART (berndt10bp 175/230 BERN10)
Berndt, Ronald M. (editor). AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. Introduced by: Berndt, Elkin, McCarthy, Mountford, Strehlow, Tuckson. BNo. n/a. First Australian Edition, 1964. Pp: xiii, 118; 275mm x 215mm; 1.17kg. 73 col (pl), 9 fig, 2 maps. Publisher's note, preface, epilogue, source, annotations, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Ure Smith Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1964. (The work of six authors, the book illustrates the variety of Aboriginal art forms: bark paintings, rock engravings and paintings, carved figures, and sacred and secular objects) (Keywords: Wandjina, Kimberley, Jundurana, Arawaldja, Groote Eylandt, Yerobeni, Oenpelli, Yirrkala, Wunungu, Milingimbi, rangga).
Book Code: P143 AU$260
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